Episode 33 - Overview of Travel Medicine: Vaccines, Outbreaks, and More – Dr David Freedman

Episode 33 – Overview of Travel Medicine: Vaccines, Outbreaks, and More – Dr David Freedman

In this episode of Going anti-Viral, Dr Michael Saag speaks with Dr David Freedman of the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide an overview of travel medicine: vaccines, outbreaks, and more. Dr Freedman is a professor of infectious diseases and his research is focused on clinical tropical medicine, including the development of surveillance networks to characterize infectious disease morbidity in travelers and migrants. Dr Saag and Dr Freedman provide an overview of worldwide outbreaks such as: mpox, H5N1, Marburg virus, Ebola, dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika virus. Dr Freedman discusses the treatments and vaccines available for each of these outbreaks. They also address the clinical challenges of treating individuals with emerging infections of unknown origin. Finally, Dr Saag and Dr Freedman address the acute setting of treating rabies exposures from bats and other wild animals.